Luis Lopez

Calling #ALife researchers & philosophers🚨 There’s still a little over a week left to submit your abstract for the interdisciplinary minisymposium we’re organizing in December. Please help us spread the word & reach anyone who might be interested! 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPS 🧪

The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response. Please share #philsci #philsky #cogsci

Have you been thinking about the main challenges or theoretical frameworks of #ALife? Do you want to discuss the current directions & future prospects of the field? Then come to Leuven & join us in a great interdisciplinary environment open to both scientists & philosophers #philsky #MolBiol #HPS 🧪

Our 67th Annual Lecture Series will begin with the Grünbaum Memorial Lecture delivered by Stephan Hartmann. The lecture will be streamed on Zoom and YouTube. #philsci https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/annual-lecture-series-stephan-hartmann/

Excited to be holding a symposium on AI/ML in science evaluation at PSA 2026. Who here is going to San Diego? @philsci.bsky.social

My @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social colleauges have launched a new diamond open access journal, The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy: mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil/abo... If you have work in areas of mathematical philosophy (broadly understood), consider submitting:

Wrapping my head around the epistemic and educational implications of AI-assisted (philosophy of) biology, I'm planning an activity-based professional development session at #POBAM2026. Can anyone suggest resources, or let me know how you incorporate AI into your classes---esp Phil.science?

New on the Archive: Lopez, Luis (2026) Approximation, Idealization, and the Toy-Model Analogy in Scientific Machine Learning. In: UNSPECIFIED. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30314/

Update: I’m co-editing a special issue of @jgps.bsky.social on “Comparative Philosophy of Science” (i.e. the systematic comparison of scientific fields and practices from a philosophical perspective) together with @karimbschir.bsky.social #philsci #HPS #HOPOS philevents.org/event/show/1...

Hello philosophers - I've written an introduction to philosophy of physics (100K words) for Routledge. I'll be finalizing it around end of summer and am keen to take soundings as to how it could be made more useful for students and teachers. Please comment below if you'd like a copy of the MS!

#philsci #philosophy #AI #ML #AI4science #XAI

Call for papers (<10K words unpublished) for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Newton’s Principia & its reception (300th anniversary of 3rd Ed.) Prize $1,000, workshop, & pub in SHPS Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline: September 1, 2026 www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

New PSA @philsci.bsky.social newsletter is out: *International Syllabus Award 🌎 *PSA Philosophy of Science & Race Prize (due June 15‼️) *PSA26 UPSS Session *PSA26 Outreach & Engagement Award *PSA Election 🗳️ *PSA Travel Grants for graduate students ✈️ & more... #philsci mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

A great Faculty Research Day last Friday: excellent talks, inspiring posters, and many conversations across different areas of philosophy. A good reminder of how much interesting work is happening around us. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and to the Siemens Stiftung for the warm hospitality.

How should models across scales be connected and evaluated? Who gets explanatory priority — the tissue or the cell? What challenges do imaging and sequencing techniques bring to data alignment? We are hosting a one-day philosophy of biology workshop in Cambridge to address exactly these questions:

@lglopez.bsky.social presents a new approach to understanding model transfer, drawing on the concept of ecological niches to define different research contexts for the application of mathematical models

Philosophy of machine learning at the MCMP www.philosophie.lmu.de/mcmp/en/rese...

Starting in one hour - Edoardo Peruzzi (Leibniz University Hannover) presenting "Formal template accumulation, unification, and scientific progress." Join us online: buff.ly/s41Xr2K

Coming up in Munich: we launch the Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change this Friday, February 6, at 5 pm! Ending the week with hope & energy for the coming years. Come along if you can - registration & programme: transform-cluster.de/transform-la... #philsci #sts #hps

Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

As a final reminder, the deadline for commentary proposals for our BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is next Tuesday, February 3. For details, follow the link. Please share if you can @phaueis.bsky.social #philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

Looking forward to welcoming Edoardo Peruzzi(Leibniz University Hannover) to our first International Postdoc Forum of 2026! Edoardo will present "Formal template accumulation, unification&scientific progress". 4 Feb 12:15 pm CST (UTC -6). @unihannover.bsky.social Zoom link online:

A book I contributed to is now out (open access): "Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Matter" link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Nanoscience #MaterialsScience #SoftMatter #AIforScience #IntelligentMatter #AI4Science

Postdoc opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two Postdoc positions (deadline 31 Jan 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

PhD opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two PhD positions (deadline 7 Feb 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Great Research Day of my Faculty at the Siemens Stiftung on Friday: excellent talks by Hannes Leitgeb, Andrew Stephenson, Christof Rapp, Ignacio Ojea Quintana, and Thomas Oehl, plus a PhD poster session and a discussion on AI in philosophy led by Sven Nyholm. Thanks to all who contributed.

The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience @phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 2-year PostDoc position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 03.11.2025. Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby #philsci #philsky

One month to go until our AI and the Nature of Science symposium. Please join us if you're in the Twin Cities. Fri 14 Nov. 1400-2000. Speakers include Carl Bergstrom, Cameron Buckner, Thomas Byrd, Lisa Messeri and Claudia Scarlata.

Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social: "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution" 📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover 📅 April 9–10, 2026 Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇

Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky

Our paper "Large physics models: towards a collaborative approach with large language models and foundation models" is now published online! @philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social @henkderegt.bsky.social @lglopez.bsky.social

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Please share. Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky

JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci

Next week I keynote t international conf. Formal Ontology for Information Systems. I remain enchanted by possibilities & challenges of comp. ontologies & worry about disregard 4 crucial semantics in the wake of genAI. Note: virtual participation is FREE! www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?pa... #philsci 🧪

The new @ishpssb.bsky.social account is live! ISH (as we affectionately call it) is my intellectual home & the most welcoming international society i ever encountered - Follow for news & dialogue on the history, philosophy and social studies of biology #philsci #histsci 🧪 🧬 🐙 🌳 🌱 🦠 🐘 🐟 🌺

Our PhD student Karla Weingarten (@karlawg.bsky.social) just published her first paper! "Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models" is now available open access at @thebjps.bsky.social.

Our paper "Large Physics Models: Towards a collaborative approach with Large Language Models and Foundation Models" has just been accepted for publication in THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C. It is a result of a workshop shorturl.at/6UbIW at @lorentzcenter.bsky.social, and is co-authored with:

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

Is a final theory of everything still the goal—or has science moved on? In this piece for IAI, I reflect on what effective field theories teach us about explanation, emergence, and realism. 🔗 iai.tv/articles/a-t... #PhilosophyOfScience #EFTs #Reductionism #Emergence #Realism #ScienceThreads

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio

The brilliant @silviamil.bsky.social is joining us in Munich 🥳 - and this means there’s a faculty post open in #egenis at the University of Exeter, which includes collaboration with our TUM group.. if you do philosophy of data and AI, consider apply! #philsci #UKEUbridges

@psychmag.bsky.social asked me some questions about my book. #philsci, #psychology, #hps, #metascience

From the latest issue: 'On Explaining the Success of Induction' – Tom F Sterkenburg Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky